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synonyms ; in an imperfect state, it is the Cholera 

 morbifera aut dysenterifera, puerulis ddectisslma ; 1 

 the Apple which Atalanta stopped to pick up ; the 

 Hedge - Apple {Malus Sepium) ; the Slug - Apple 

 (limacea) ; the Eailroad- Apple, which perhaps came 

 from a core thrown out of the cars ; the Apple whose 

 Fruit we tasted in our Youth ; our Particular Apple, 

 not to be found in any catalogue, Pedestrium So 

 latium ; 2 also the Apple where hangs the Forgotten 

 Scythe ; Iduna s Apples, and the Apples which Loki 

 found in the Wood ; and a great many more I have 

 on my list, too numerous to mention, all of them 

 good. As Bodseus exclaims, referring to the culti 

 vated kinds, and adapting Virgil to his case, so I, 

 adapting Bodseus, 



&quot; Not if I had a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, 

 An iron voice, could I describe all the forms 

 And reckon up all the names of these wild apples&quot; 



THE LAST GLEANING. 



By the middle of November the wild apples have 

 lost some of their brilliancy, and have chiefly fallen. 

 A great part are decayed on the ground, and the 

 sound ones are more palatable than before. The 

 note of the chickadee sounds now more distinct, as 

 you wander amid the old trees, and the autumnal 

 dandelion is half-closed and tearful. But still, if you 

 are a skilful gleaner, you may get many a pocket-full 

 even of grafted fruit, long after apples are supposed 

 to be gone out-of-doors. I know a Blue-Pearmain 

 tree, growing within the edge of a swamp, almost as 



1 The apple that brings the disease of cholera and of dysen 

 tery, the fruit that small boys like best. 



2 The tramp s comfort. 



